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Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys cashed the board's mistake on Amos: A.
by This is Stupid ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 18 picks
· 18 steals
· 0 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Trey Amos, the 249th pick, roughly 198 picks past where he belonged.
The trade ledger is the best part of the whole weekend. A whole weekend of picks and tight end is somehow still a want.
The kind of weekend a front office frames and hangs on the wall.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 14th pick they get an island corner, and a steal at that. The biggest hole, addressed.
In the Round 1 slot they get a lead back with juice, outstanding value to boot. A clean fit for the roster.
A quarterback of that caliber at the 44th overall pick is the definition of value, full stop. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Steal is underselling it; Jahdae Barron at pick No. 47 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They robbed the room for Walter Nolen here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The roster fit checks out.
Circle this one: Armand Membou at pick 94 is a fall that decides a draft. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
They barely believed it either: Nick Emmanwori still on the board at No. 103. A minor need, but a need all the same.
You do not let a linebacker like Jihaad Campbell reach slot 150 and blink. They did not. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Tre Harris at pick No. 152 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
The board fumbled Wyatt Milum all the way to the 165th pick, and they scooped it up. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Jayden Higgins in Round 5, Pick 33 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A top-tier interior defensive lineman at a bargain, T.J. Sanders in the Round 5 slot, plain and simple. A need, and now a little less of one.
Demetrius Knight Jr. at No. 174 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Somehow Quinshon Judkins was still sitting there in the 190th overall pick, and they pounced on premier running back value. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Kyle Kennard in pick 211 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They will replay Jaxson Dart at slot 234 for years; that is how good the value is. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Antwaun Powell-Ryland in Round 7, Pick 18 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. Insurance at a position that did not really ask for it.
Trey Amos at slot 249 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.